Definitely government or union, both have there features, the union tactic is to stretch it out to get as much time out of it as possible and hopefully be able to get overtime out of it. The immense details are to assure you can't be held accountable for anything if it goes wrong, or even if it doesn't get done. Many of the problems in government, especially local governments are caused by the taxpayers themselves as well as the people they elect to council or county board. The two prime examples I have from my time in hell, excuse me "working for the county" was with our motor pool, many of our taxpayers and most newly elected county supervisors want to eliminate the county motor pool because it's "wasteful", not realizing the motor pool operated without levy (meaning the only revenue it had was from fees they charged for the use of the vehicles, no direct tax dollars were used) and the fees charged were less than the current IRS mileage reimbursement rate. Taxpayers would state they wanted us to discontinue some of the social programs, not understanding if we discontinued a program the cost the county say $150,000 a year the resulting loss of state and federal money could very well be over $250,000, we were bribed to keep some of these programs, cutting back a senior citizen's program could effect the amount of say highway funds we got. The example of the kind of people we elect....one of the counties to the south of us, similar in size ran into some fiscal problems and laid off 35 highway department workers, our county board was salivating, they wanted to lay off 35 worker so they could keep up with the neighbors. I took us almost 3 hours to get them to understand if you have 28 employees you can't lay off 35. Over the years, and during that period of warming temperatures that is now over, they reduced the size of the county highway department. They did things like selling the county's asphalt plant, eliminating paving and plowing for cities and townships and some of it was we weren't having as much snow as they usually got. Some of this was because of union demands on wages, benefits and work rules left the county highway department at a disadvantage when bidding city and township work. The state passed laws that pretty much eliminated any possibility of the highway department doing any state construction work (guess the campaign contributions by the big construction companies was money well spent). Of course taxpayers are bitching because there were no lay-offs, the union was mad because they were losing jobs and the Feds and the state continue to pass more mandates that the county must fund.
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